Re: [PATCH v6 09/10] vduse: Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace
From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Date: 2021-04-13 03:35:26
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在 2021/4/12 下午5:59, Yongji Xie 写道:
On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 5:37 PM Jason Wang [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
在 2021/4/12 下午4:02, Yongji Xie 写道:quoted
On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 3:16 PM Jason Wang [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
在 2021/4/9 下午4:02, Yongji Xie 写道:quoted
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+}; + +struct vduse_dev_config_data { + __u32 offset; /* offset from the beginning of config space */ + __u32 len; /* the length to read/write */ + __u8 data[VDUSE_CONFIG_DATA_LEN]; /* data buffer used to read/write */Note that since VDUSE_CONFIG_DATA_LEN is part of uAPI it means we can not change it in the future. So this might suffcient for future features or all type of virtio devices.Do you mean 256 is no enough here?Yes.But this request will be submitted multiple times if config lengh is larger than 256. So do you think whether we need to extent the size to 512 or larger?So I think you'd better either: 1) document the limitation (256) in somewhere, (better both uapi and doc)But the VDUSE_CONFIG_DATA_LEN doesn't mean the limitation of configuration space. It only means the maximum size of one data transfer for configuration space. Do you mean document this?Yes, and another thing is that since you're using data[VDUSE_CONFIG_DATA_LEN] in the uapi, it implies the length is always 256 which seems not good and not what the code is wrote.How about renaming VDUSE_CONFIG_DATA_LEN to VDUSE_MAX_TRANSFER_LEN? Thanks, Yongji
So a question is the reason to have a limitation of this in the uAPI?
Note that in vhost-vdpa we don't have such:
struct vhost_vdpa_config {
__u32 off;
__u32 len;
__u8 buf[0];
};
Thanks